Guardian Quiptic 906/Anto

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Another Anto for us.  There are a couple I can’t see, so help welcomed.

 

 

 

 

 

Abbreviations

cd  cryptic definition
dd  double definition
(xxxx)*  anagram
anagrind = anagram indicator
[x]  letter(s) missing

definitions are underlined

Across

1  Daughter called back to make claim
DEMAND
A reversal of D and NAMED.

4  Criticise shelter where jaguar, for example, may be found
CAR PARK
A charade of CARP and ARK.

9  Water golf rough in fading light
AFTERGLOW
(WATER GOLF)*

10  Bird, when nesting on Channel Islands, turns into shipping hazard!
GREBE
I’m sorry, I can’t parse this.  But here’s the obligatory Pierre bird link.

11  Doctrine taking in the Italian faith
ISLAM
An insertion of LA for one of the words for ‘the’ in Italian, in ISM.

12  Poet provides merry old king with crest
COLERIGDGE
A charade of COLE and RIDGE.

13  We must look up when artist is on there
TRAPEZE
A cd, or perhaps &lit?

15  Communications officer starts to name the others immediately
PRONTO
A charade of PR, O and the first letters of  Name The Others.

17  Commercial music piece, which makes very little impact
POPGUN
A charade of POP and GUN.

19  Resident of Derby dropping by to pick up spring
DWELLER
The setter is asking you to insert WELL into DER[BY]

22  Europe leads warm support for living community
ECOSYSTEM
A charade of E, COSY and STEM.

24  Run over what venture capitalist holds
RECAP
Hidden in ventuRE CAPalist.

26  Saw momentum when I replaced initial energy
SPIED
An invitation to replace E with I in SPEED.

27  Gave up having incorrectly read previous solution
DESPAIRED
(READ SPIED)*  The previous solution is SPIED.

28  Completely child friendly
TOTALLY
A whimsical way of saying that ‘completely’ could be a TOT ALLY.

29  Big businessman not coming back to acquire unknown company
TYCOON
An insertion of Y for ‘unknown’ and CO in NOT reversed.

Down

1  Recorder makes the most terrible sound
DIARIST
An alleged homophone of DIREST.

2  Lead is one for master and others to follow
METAL
A charade of M and ET AL.

3  Exchanged reg number to get location of controversial rally
NUREMBERG
(REG NUMBER)*

4  Plant that low sounds come from?
COWSLIP
Low is to moo, so ‘low sounds’ would come from a COW’S LIP.

5  He is called out to give confirmation
ROGER
What pilots do.

6  Dodgy tale can do as one form of evidence
ANECTODAL
(TALE CAN DO)* with ‘dodgy’ as the anagrind.

7  One who saves is good relationship material
KEEPER
A dd.

8  Client checks only half completed? It’s so commonplace
CLICHE
A charade of the first two words of the clue only half completed.

14  Champion provides a game summary
APOLOGIST
A charade of A, POLO and GIST.

16  Prepared for a roasting, Yoda never varied
OVEN READY
(YODA NEVER)*

18  Remarkably, central donors extend deadline before close of play
NOTEDLY

19  Death leads to half empty senate
DEMISE
More apologies.  I can’t see this.

20  Recruited sculptor to take on exercise
ROPED IN
An insertion of PE in RODIN, the sculptor.

21  In France I raise tax for wealthy crowd
JET SET
A charade of JE for the French ‘I’ and TEST reversed.

23  How the Swiss might call on Derek …
YODEL
A charade of YO and DEL.  As in George W Bush’s famous ‘Yo Blair!’

25    … to begin covering up really interesting object
CURIO
The first letters of the last five letters of the clue.

Many thanks to Anto for the puzzle.

25 comments on “Guardian Quiptic 906/Anto”

  1. GREBE is (IC)EBERG backwards – good clue, but not a Quiptic one. NOTEDLY is middle letters of doNOrs exTEnd deaDLine + Y for unknown – another too hard for a Quiptic

    No idea about DEMISE

    btw this blog is “Uncategorised” at the moment

  2. Thanks Pierre and Anto

    I’m hardly surprised that you did not get 10A GREBE – it is not Quiptic stuff. Add CI (‘Channel Islands’) and reverse (‘turns into’) and you get ICEBERG (‘shipping hazard’).

    19D DEMISE is a charade of DEMI (‘half’) plus SE (’empty SenatE‘).

  3. I enjoyed this, in fact, with GREBE, TOTALLY, METAL and APOLOGIST favourites.

    I gather that you and I are in agreement about the DIARIST homophone, Pierre. Thanks for the blog.

  4. 10a: shipping hazard is ICEBERG. GREBE backwards plus CI backwards for Channel Islands.
    19d: DEMI is half and empty SenatE is SE – removing ENAT from senate.

  5. Thanks both. Another Monday, another Quiptic too hard for the slot. Agree about DIARIST. Some good clues. Another audition for a “proper” crossword slot

  6. Thank you Anto and Pierre.

    I found this enjoyable, even though some clues were a bit tricky for a Quiptic. Rushed in with CARPORT before realising that it was one word, and it wouldn’t fully parse anyway.

    Both Collins and the COED give the pronunciation of dire and diary as identical, but I make a slight difference when I say the words.

  7. Hi Cookie
    but ..EST and ..IST are by no means the same! I’m surprised at DIRE and DIARY too, as I would always pronounce the latter DI AH REE

  8. Minor aside, but whilst there was lots to enjoy, am I justified in finding momentum as a synonym for speed irksome?
    Just me science background, pretty sure momentum was mass times velocity, but I accept that it may be OK for common parlance?

  11. When I started this puzzle, I thought I had opened a Prize puzzle by mistake. I am amazed that I managed to finish this Quiptic.

    My favourites were APOLOGIST, DIARIST, ECOSYSTEM, GREBE (LOI).

    I was unable to fully parse 27a, 25d, 23d.

    Thanks Anto and Pierre

  12. muffin @7, I get you now, didn’t before since I pronounce the endings of DIARIST and direst the same, for artist and interest the COED gives the endings as the same, can’t think of more apt examples at the moment…

  15. Curiously, completed yesterday’s Azed this morning in less time than it took to do the Quiptic. Didn’t understand Grebe and didn’t get Popgun. Maybe me with wrong brain engaged, or maybe too hard for Quiptic! Some good fun cluing, though….

  16. Too hard for a quiptic, I agree, but there were quite a few clever clues in here, and I certainly enjoyed solving it. As a physicist, though, I grumbled about speed being confused with momentum.

    I don’t know why Derek = Del. Google tells me about a character on a TV show about fools and horses. Is it a reference to that, or is Del used more broadly as a nickname for Derek?

    Thanks!

  17. Ted @ 16. The hugely popular TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses was set in Peckham (south London), where Del is indeed a Cockney diminutive of Derek.

  21. I enjoyed it too,but couldn’t parse notedly. Thanks Muffin. Not at all happy with keeper as definition of good relationship material. Saver perhaps but not keeper so hadn’t written it in. Again far too difficult for a quiptic. When is the editor going to do something about it????

  22. I thought 4a, 2d & 4d excellent and 27a was a learning experiences but GREBE was well out of my league. No way does SPEED = MOMENTUM but perhaps only the science crew care? Tough one for a tyro.

  23. Phyllida @21
    “Keeper” for someone worth staying in a relationship with seems to have crept into the language. I’ve heard it a few times recently; the first being in the (disappointing) Christmas special “Outnumbered”.

  24. Rather like speed and momentum being different things to a physicist, an ecosystem and a community have very precise, and different, definitions to an ecologist. A community consists only of living organisms; an ecosystem comprises a community and its non-living environment. Perhaps in both cases the setter can cite common usage as an excuse, but such loose definition would be better avoided if possible. That said, I thought this was a good crossword. One or two feeble semi-cryptic definitions and one or two clues too hard for the slot, but mostly good Quiptic material.

  25. Just for the record:

    Remarkably, central donors extend deadline before close of play (7)

    Parses to: do(no)rs ex(te)nd dea(dl)ine … pla(y) = notedly

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